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Our certified de Bono Meeting Facilitators have vast experience in using over 75 techniques from Edward de Bono for focused, productive, and innovative meetings. We lead on-site and virtual meetings. Learn More!

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Our expert coaches will help you clearly define your meeting objectives and incorporate proven meeting facilitation tools and techniques that your group can use to work through important issues. This preparation will ensure you’re ready to lead your team to breakthrough ideas and supported, workable action plans. Learn More!

Course in Creativity

The search is on for how to assure your organization's survival and prosperity into the future. What's desperately needed, and often missing, from innovation strategies are proven, repeatable methods for producing creativity on demand.
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Cancellation Policy for Public Courses

Cancellations received within 14 days of the training course will receive no refund. You may substitute another attendee for the cost of any required pre-work.

Cancellations received more than 14 days before the training course are subject to a $250 service charge, plus the cost of any completed pre-work. You may substitute another attendee for the cost of any required pre-work.
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Innovation Must Go Beyond Lip Service

Meeting Facilitation

A productive, efficiently run meeting can save thousands of dollars, create new ideas that help a company achieve financial success, solve major problems, and foster an atmosphere that motivates individuals.

Our certified de Bono Meeting Facilitators have vast experience in using over 75 techniques from Edward de Bono for focused, productive, and innovative meetings. We lead on-site and virtual meetings. Learn More!

On-site Training Seminars

Bringing a de Bono trainer in-house is oftentimes more cost-effective than sending employees to our events.

The training will take place at your location when it’s convenient to you and your team. These customized programs are delivered by experienced, officially certified de Bono trainers who are committed to innovation in processes, products, problem solving, & more. Learn More!

Trainer Recertification

Upcoming Events

Coaching

Are you preparing for an important meeting?

Our expert coaches will help you clearly define your meeting objectives and incorporate proven meeting facilitation tools and techniques that your group can use to work through important issues. This preparation will ensure you’re ready to lead your team to breakthrough ideas and supported, workable action plans. Learn More!

Course in Creativity

The search is on for how to assure your organization's survival and prosperity into the future. What's desperately needed, and often missing, from innovation strategies are proven, repeatable methods for producing creativity on demand.
Learn More!

Upcoming Course in Creativity Events

Upcoming Public Seminars

Cancellation Policy for Public Courses

Cancellations received within 14 days of the training course will receive no refund. You may substitute another attendee for the cost of any required pre-work.

Cancellations received more than 14 days before the training course are subject to a $250 service charge, plus the cost of any completed pre-work. You may substitute another attendee for the cost of any required pre-work.
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de Bono Consulting is committed to innovation in processes, products, problem solving, and more.

Innovation Must Go Beyond Lip Service

Many organisations today pay lip service to the idea of ‘innovation.’ But it is not enough to say that you are in favor of innovation and then do nothing about it.

Many organisations have told me that they already have too many new ideas. I do not see how you can have too many ideas. You just pick the best.

Too many corporations still believe that nothing can be done about creativity. There are people who are creative and there are people who are not creative. You just have to hope and wait for the creative people to have new ideas. This is an extremely old-fashioned view.

The deliberate and formal skills of Lateral Thinking can be taught, learned, and practiced in as deliberate a manner as we learn and use mathematics. Creativity is not just a natural talent.

Brainstorming doesn’t go far enough. One afternoon a group of workshops, using one of the formal tools of lateral thinking, generated 21,000 ideas for a steel company. It took the company nine months to sort through the ideas generated in that afternoon. This goes way beyond what brainstorming will do for you.

The first step is to give someone senior the responsibility of doing something about innovation. This person will be required to report periodically on what he or she has done. The person does need to be senior.

The next step is to make the senior levels in an organisation aware of the importance of creativity and what can be done about it. This could be achieved in the form of a lecture or seminar.

Some structure needs to be put in place to encourage, channel, and examine new ideas. Eventually a Centre for Innovation and Creativity may be set up.

A sufficient group of people need to be trained formally in the deliberate creative methods of Lateral Thinking. This does need to be done formally, using certified Lateral Thinking instructors, and so on. Messing around has no value.

At all times the chief executive must emphasize the importance of creativity to the organisation and also indicate to people that new thinking will be noticed, rewarded and acted upon. Expectations need to be set.

A formal Creative Hit List might be constructed and made available to all. This is a focus list of areas that seem to need new ideas. Employees at all levels are invited to have ideas around these listed areas.

Creativity and innovation should be seen as everyone’s responsibility.